It never fails to shock me how a tip is demanded in the US. People simply refuse to listen to reason when we (yes, there are others!) tell them that leaving a tip isn’t necessary. Well, I’m hoping for too much here, but if you’re a waiter, here are 5 reasons why I will try my best not to give any money to you and why the reasons for tipping are crappy.
1. You act as if you’re my best friend
Just leave me alone ok? I don’t want to bloody chit chat with you. I want food. FOOD! Get it? It’s a restaurant. I go there to eat. I go because I want either Italian food, Chinese Food or something else which I can’t get in a McDonald’s. So I come to a restaurant to fulfill my cravings for it. I will pay for what I value – food. Not you.
Christ, you offend me – kneeling down next to my table, pretending to like me and chatting as if you’re my best friend when it’s obvious that all you’re after is the tip! I’m not a bloody money bag you know. I will pay the bill which includes the cost of the food, the environment and the salaries of the people involved – nothing more.
The only way to get money out of me that I don’t have to legally pay is by prying it out of my cold dead hands…
Bottom line: I don’t want to know your name, or interact with you for any longer than I have to in order to place my order. As far as I’m concerned, you’re the equivalent of a conveyor belt that brings me my food and a computer into which I input my order. Of course, I won’t be rude. But don’t expect me to interact with you any more than I would with some stranger.
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2. You don’t get paid enough
And this is my problem how exactly? It’s astonishing that customers are expected to make up for your employer’s cheapness in not paying you a decent wage. Please include the full cost in everyone’s bill thank you very much. I’ll pay it because I have to and the charge is there for me to see.
What’s really funny here is that no one seems to criticize the employers! All criticism is reserved for non tipping customers instead of the owners of the restaurant for not paying a decent wage. Wtf! Could it possibly be because you guys know you can make much more by tips and under report your income to the IRS?
3. You’ll spit in my food if I don’t tip you?
And I’ll shoot your kid if you don’t give me a million dollars. Seriously, am I even hearing this right? You’re actually using the threat of blackmail to make me pay you? Well as long as you’re openly claiming to be a criminal it’s all right I guess.
Fortunately that’s why I prefer buffets. Listen apart from it being illegal, this shows your poor integrity. But if you spit in someone’s food because they didn’t give you money you didn’t earn, then you’re a loser and deserve to be a waiter for the rest of your life.
4. Bringing me my food isn’t worthy of being paid extra
Did you cook it? Did you invent it? No. You picked it up and brought it to me. While it might not be easy, there are plenty of jobs which are much worse – shop floor workers for example. And I’ve been a shop floor manager, so I know. Face it – compared to other jobs, being a waiter is unskilled. You get paid what the market will think your services are worth. You don’t deserve more for your work over and above what your employer should pay you.
5. Money doesn’t grow on trees
I expect you to be grateful and pray for me at night if I tip you 10%. Be happy I gave you anything at all. I worked for the money in my wallet and by giving you some I didn’t have to, I’m doing you a favor. Learn to remember that when people give you something they don’t need to, it’s a favor. You don’t complain that they didn’t give you more!
By the way, the same thing above applies to all professions that demand tips including those on cruise liners.
So now that you understand why I won’t give you money you don’t deserve, stop with the “oh how could you?” attitude. I can. And I will.
Update: Here’s a rebuttal of the many silly justifications for tipping that people have given in the comments section.
chal yoyoyoyo
I’m not sure if many of the commenters understand that a tip is not “take it or leave it” money for the servers. These are not people, at least not in North America (I’m assuming that is where many of you are reading/commenting on this from), who are making minimum wage, then taking home tips on top of that. In fact, in 19 states the wage for tipped workers is $2.13 an hour. On top of that, there are “tip outs” given to other parties in the restaurant (ie: bussers, hosts, kitchen staff, bar, house ect.) which usually amount to somewhere between 4-6% of a servers gross sales, regardless of the tips they have received that shift. The reason for making the quantity of the tip up to the customers; is to make the server more accountable to each individual table and ideally more attentive to each customers’ needs. This does not however, mean that tips are a fully optional source of revenue for servers. The alternative is using the system found in places like Europe or Australia, where the cost of eating out is raised and servers are paid higher wages, as well as receiving some benefits that are more comparable to other industries. In this system, tipping is more uncommon and usually only occurs when service is above what is expected. Service also tends to be slower and less friendly or courteous than what we are accustomed to in North America, since an element of accountability towards customers is removed. Either way the customer is paying a servers wage it is just that one way is more direct.
In reply to Elsie
You make $7.75 an hour minimum with or without tips. This is federal minimum wage. I don’t care who you tip out you still have to make a minimum of that per hour.
There is no reason why any money should be based upon customers tipping you. Get a real job bitch, you are already overpaid by five dollars an hour.
What a funny blog and replies. This shows there are two types of people in this world. Assholes like the blogger who feels he is superior and looks down on service industry people and then the bitter wait staff who by their comments, will never get out of the industry.
I tip 20% or more, I am not a sheep. I do it because I know most servers work hard and the tips get shared with a lot of staff. if serviced was really really bad, you will get 15%.
We need service industry personnel. see what happens if your trash hauler goes on strike.
To the blogger, get over yourself. you obviously have issues and a very bitter person. must suck to be you and you can come back with whatever response you want to disagree but I do not waste my time reading responses so I will not see it so do not waste your time with me sir. you are a bitter ass hole..
In reply to Colin
You are right we need people to haul trash they are important and do an important job.
We don’t need waiters and waitresses because they are losers of society and can’t get a real job. They are nothing but modern-day slaves waiting on people.
When I go to the bathroom to wash my hands I could easily pick up my food and bring it to the table. I don’t need a waitress to do that for me.
Nobody needs a retard to bring them their food when it’s ready to be picked up from the kitchen. Any adult that does this for a living is a dumbass loser.
In reply to Sam
Be careful that your trash hauler doesn’t pick you up and stick you in the truck along with the rest of the garbage you pole smoking a lowlife.
A DOO LAY OOSE! EAT MY SMEG!
Not tipping in America you’re a disgrace and not an American get out of this country!
In reply to Youidiots
I was born here and I don’t tip. With or without tips you have to make federal minimum-wage it is the law. You are severely overpaid by five dollars an hour. Get a real job you are a joke.
In reply to Leopold
Do you think servers just bring you your food then stand around with their thumbs up their asses? You aren’t the only customer in the whole restaurant. Fast food cashiers give you your food and a cup for your drink, that makes them conveyor belts. Servers do more than that, that makes them servers, not conveyer belts.
In reply to Alexis Loucks
I’m sure you have a lubricated thumb up your ass most of the day.
The only way you will get a tip for me is if you suck my dick.
Being a waitress is a brain-dead unskilled job. The person that cleans the dog shit off my lawn works harder than you, and has more skills.
In reply to Leopold
Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t know you knew me personally, lol. I thought you were just some random ass guy on the internet. Cause that is the ONLY way you could POSSIBLY make a judgement upon my skills and how hard I work. Go pay a prostitute to suck your dick, cause that’s part of their job description, not mine
In reply to Leopold
I hope that when your child is trying to work their way through college they are met by the likes of you so that you can feel some of your own miserable attitude dealt back to you. You’re a dickies fucktard.
In reply to kaity
My children will never have to work through college or worry about money. When they were born I started an education trust fund. They will be able to devote all their time to their studies.
The funds will be large enough for them to attend any Ivy League college they want.
In reply to Leopold
Well I think that’s awesome. Your kids are lucky. But what about the kids who are less fortunate? The kids who have to become a “lowly” server to make it through college without a huge debt? Not everyone is as fortunate as your children
In reply to Alexis Loucks
I don’t give a shit about them. Those people were born for menial jobs anyways.
In reply to Leopold
Caste. Learn to spell. Ignorance is the bane of the disfortunate.
In reply to Rita
Well said
In reply to Alexis Loucks
I don’t care what table slaves do when their not serving me. As far as I’m concerned these losers were put on this earth to serve superiors like myself.
Restaurant servers of the losers of society, and they should be happy to be in the presence someone like me.
Human conveyor belts who dare to complain about having to serve me without getting a tip that they don’t deserve should be rounded up and hauled off to camps in Poland to wait their eventual demise
Minimum wage just too much for these losers they should be forced to work for free
In reply to Adolf Stiffer
Lol, who in the actual fuck do you think you are? As far as I am concerned, unless your name is God or Jesus Christ, you are not, and will never be, superior to me. You will always be a self absorbed jackass who brags to random strangers on the internet.
In reply to Adolf Stiffer
1488… Working class, ay? Can’t respect a hard working mother fucker, can you? fucking FAG
In reply to kaity
Take your 14 words and stick them up your ass.
Your kind has less than 100 years left and you know it
welcome to a brave new world.
In reply to Simon Wiesenthal
Well said love it
In reply to Adolf Stiffer
Servers are below you? Really? I’m a server and I graduated high school a year early with an academic honors diploma, many academic awards, and in the National Honors Society. I’m currently in college getting a law degree. You are not superior to me.
In reply to Adolf Stiffer
I am not a waitress to pay myself through college. I am a waitress because I am saving money for my near future. Would you like to get up and get your own food? Your own drinks? Oh, and would you also like to clean the bathrooms? Because in many restaurants, like the one I work in, servers clean the bathrooms.Would you like to sweep or vacuum the restaurant’s floors? Because servers do that too. For $2.16 an hour. Most of which goes to taxes. Our salaries are not included in the price of your food or drink. Our salaries depend on you. Next time you eat at a restaurant, save the waitress’s time. Tell her you won’t tip her. We’ll see how satisfied you are then. Or, maybe you could just not go out, since it is known that you are expected to tip when you walk in. Oh, and servers are below you? I’m a server and I graduated high school an entire year early with an academic honors diploma, I was in the top of my class, received many academic awards, and was in the National Honors Society. I’m currently studying law in college, where I have been offered many opportunities to be a part of an academic society. You are not superior to me.
In reply to Tiffany G.
You are fucking stupid and a liar. http://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm you do not make $2.13 an hour. By law you have to make federal minimum-wage with or without tips . In most states you actually get the states minimum wage with or without tips. Waiting on the wealthy and cleaning bathrooms is what lower-class people like you do. You were put on this earth to serve rich people such as myself. You are as dumb as a box of rocks. You are as worthless as tits on a bull.
In reply to Steve O
Lemme guess why you’re so rich. Are you the king of Narnia? Maybe you are the Wizard of Oz? Are you Batman? Superman? Maybe even Iron Man? Did you discover Atlantis? Are you the founder of Atlantis? Do you rule Atlantis? Those are all I can think of, so please tell me which imaginary “career” led you to all your “wealth” and “superiority”. Cause actual wealthy people don’t comment on online articles, they have more important things to do. Go back to your fantasyland and stay there, jerk.
In reply to Alexis Loucks
I have a PhD in Quantum Physics. I would go on to explain to you how that is an extremely lucrative career. However your simple mind would not be able to comprehend it. It pains me to have to use small simple words for your mind to understand me.
In reply to Steve O
So what was your job when you were in my shoes mr.better than everyone else? What was your first job without a college degree right out of high school? And I will also have you know that my IQ is above average, I have the test results. I don’t need you to dumb anything down because I do not have a two digit IQ. I am sure you were inferior in high school and picked on because of your smarts, so now that you have something that is significant, you shit on other people and make them feel inferior to make up for your destroyed high school ego. And, I can only assume that you have yet to find a way to feel proud of yourself, so you brag to strangers on the internet to get the satisfaction that you cannot get from yourself. (Did I mention I am studying psychology?)You make yourself out to be so much more important than you actually are. You are no Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, or Albert Einstein, so don’t be so pretentious and act as if anyone actually wants to hear about your job description or that you have to use small terms. Just because someone doesn’t have a PhD, doesn’t mean they aren’t smart. Your attitude is so repugnant and you are obviously an incredibly disconsolate human being. If you’re so smart, go figure out a way to be a more genial person.
In reply to Steve O
STEVE O. You do not have a PhD, lets be honest. I have a PhD though, in rocket science. I’m an exception.
In reply to Steve O
I bet you have a small dick… i bet you are mad because you have all that money and still….a small dick. I bet thats why you so mad at the world. The “lower class” is having fun and fucking around after theyre “peasant labour day” while you sit in your mansion and have… small dick. Well anyhow i hope you come to Estonia sometimes. If you do i will find you and punch you in your small dick and shove all your money in your ass where it belongs. Go fuck a cactus you dipshit.
In reply to Alexis Loucks
You should do anal porn. Since you like things up your ass.
A person that serves fast food works harder and does more than you. Being a waitress is a lazy job with no responsibilities or training required.
The fast food worker probably needed at least a half hour worth of training. You just needed to learn where the food pick up area is, and the location of the bar. Training for you is now complete.
In reply to $Bill
I definitely said servers don’t stand around with their thumbs up their asses. Do you know where I work? No, you definitely don’t. I spent 5 days training, and every restaurant is different as far as jobs are concerned. I actually do a lot of extra work besides serving. Don’t assume, because you know what they say about assuming
In reply to Alexis Loucks
You must be pretty stupid if it took you 5 days of training to learn where to pick up the food, and the location of the bar. Your job is stupid simple that’s why you’re paid squat. A waitress should be seen and not heard.
In reply to Dave
Okay it was five days of required training. And, as I have previously stated, unless you know where I work, you don’t know the list of responsibilities and different things I have to do during my shift. It’s more than picking food up and puting it down. But, you wouldn’t know that, of course, which is why it is so easy for you to make a generalized statement about a job that has different responsibilities at every restaurant. And, as I also have stated, I am not stupid and I am only a server because I am 18 and paying my way through college and this is the best job I could get considering my age and the fact that I only have a high school degree.
In reply to Alexis Loucks
You are a waitress. Nobody gives a shit about you or your personal problems. Run to the kitchen and get my food table slave. You are a simple conveyor belt, no tip for you.
In reply to Greg
Lol, conveyor belt and table slave? Come on now, Greg, you can do better than that! You are just using recycled insults now. And don’t call me dumb, retarded, worthless, piece of shit, uneducated, trash, wench, or anything similar to that because those have been used too. Come one Greg, really dig deep to the meanest core of your body and come up with a good insult. To be honest, your comment isn’t even one that will stick in my mind for more than five minutes. If you really want to scar an 18 year old making an honest living for college that you don’t even know, then you have to try to be a little more creative. Take your time Greg, I don’t mind waiting. Unlike you, I have better things to do than make a person in the comment section of an article online feel inferior.
In reply to Greg
I’m tired… can you go get it.
In reply to Alexis Loucks
You’re an honorable young girl for working your own way through school. I’ll bet most of these high-class dicks made their way off daddy’s dime. You’ll end up being a wonderful, well-rounded woman who knows better than to treat people like scum, simply for working hard to become successful. Hats off to you.
In reply to kaity
Thanks Kaity. It’s nice to talk to someone who actually respects others of their kind. And I am not even sure half of these dudes are even a quarter of how successful they say they are. I would give any of these guys the money I make in a month, tips included, to apply to my job, get hired, and do my job with my hours (which go from 5pm to sometimes 4am) for a month without a single penny. Then they can talk all big cause atleast they will know what the job is actually like and what it is like not to get tips or a paycheck, because they think we should do our job for free.
In reply to Leopold
I don’t think you actually think this.
In reply to Leopold
So how are you going to get your food you fucking disgrace to mankind. I hope the fleas of a thousand camels infest your small dick and your pubes surrounding it
In reply to Leopold
You’re a broke ass cheap bastard
In reply to Leopold
You’re an idiot. But we need people like you in this world. its good for us. To see the nastiness that is out there and how good of a moral standing one can have. I am a server but I am also a full time college student, staying away till late at work then waking up early to kick ass in school. I grew up in a lot so well off family so I always work for what I deserve. I’ve worked in retail and in offices. You don’t make enough money and that’s why serving is the best way for college students to make a living especially when you don’t have mommy and daddy paying for you. But keep it up you are one narcissistic guy. But your posts are hilarious to read. You’re just a low life with nothing to do but reply to posts and make up several names that’s all you and reply to more!!! It’s sooo funny. you get a kick out of reading people’s comments and how they react. But really honey, money ain’t no thang we all are going to buried or made into ashes one day. Maybe your is sooner then later with your negativity.
In reply to Leopold
You do not necessarily make the federal min wage if you are a server, it is one of the exceptions in most states.
In reply to fds
While it’s true that state laws allow servers to be paid less than minimum wage, it also states that if the server’s tips don’t make up at least minimum wage, then the employer needs to pay them the rest.
In reply to Youidiots
Last night my family went to red lobster for endless shrimp. I paid my bill with no tip. As I was leaving the bathroom, the waitress asked me if it would’ve killed me to leave her a couple of dollars. I asked her what she thought she did that deserved a tip. Her mouth was moving and all I heard was blah blah blah. I told her that it is her fucking job, and how dare you bother me about this.
So I spoke with the manager and shift supervisor. I received a $50 gift card to come back again. The best part was they sent the waitress home for the evening. A worthless waitress is easily replaceable but a paying customer is not.
In reply to Brad
Exactly what is your contribution to society? I can pump my own gas.
In reply to Brad
Just get take out asshole!
In reply to Youidiots
5 reasons that the jackass that wrote the original blog is a douchebag:
1) If you don’t feel that tipping is necessary, either go some place where it isn’t customary or stay home, which ironically could be the same place: hell.
2) It isn’t always our pleasure to listen to total strangers drone on about how miserable their live are. Omg! You are expected to tip! Then there’s the act like we can stand you acting like our friend/future ex-spouse simply because some @$$hole before didn’t tip and now we have to make up for it.
3) Money doesn’t grow on trees! You said it yourself! I get $2.13 an hour. No paycheck. Also, I have to tip out the other people that make your visit bearable, people that run food, bussers, bartenders, etc.
4) Someone has to serve the food at those restaurants and we can’t help it if the bosses don’t pay a regular wage. If business is slow, they can’t afford to pay a full salary to the servers, bussers and so forth that would be necessary to have on the clock for some pain in the ass ungrateful tables such as yourself that complain about everything and have stuff comped because their food was so horrible, even though they ate most of it with a gallon of ranch, which they expected was free refills.
5) Someone was clearly born with a silver spoon in their mouth and apparently their money is too good for us lowly servers. Hey! With all the money you’re saving by not tipping, you should hire a personal chef and cease wasting every servers’ time that has ever had you darken and waste their table. I bet they’re so tight they squeak!!
If I ever found out that I was waiting on you, I’d crop dust the hell out of you. I’ll just let you ponder that one :) xoxo (I know ya like it when we are overly friendly)
In reply to heather
You make minimum-wage with or without tips you fucking retard. Worst case scenario you have to make federal minimum-wage stupid. So you don’t make $2.13 an hour you fucking liar.
Hey, asshole, guess what? I don’t chat with my customers unless they chat with me. I don’t care if someone doesn’t tip me, because it is not required and it will not discourage me or anger me, in fact, it won’t even put a damper on my mood. I don’t complain about not getting tips because that is a shitty and unprofessional thing to do as a server. And, since you want to talk about how much of a loser I am, I would love to meet an 18 year old who has a highly skilled job. Because I am 18, fresh out of high school, and a freshman in college, so I am sorry I am not a CEO of a world wide corporation. So, please, continue to make ignorant and generalized statements about me, tell me how stupid I am, call me names, and whatever other shitty thing you can think of because I am a server. Because, at the end of the day, my life is just beginning so I have plenty of time to grow as an adult and become successful and happy. My job as an 18 year old server does not define me or restrict the possibilities I have in my future. As a matter of fact, all experience, no matter what job it may be, is good experience. As long as it puts money in my pocket and in my savings account. I have family, friends, happiness, and money, and not you, nor any other opinionated asshole can take that away from me. So take your snide, vexatious, contemptible, pretentious, scurrilous, unscrupulous comments and stick them somewhere, okay? Alright, have a wonderful day.
In reply to Alexis Loucks
It finally sunk in to your tiny brain that nobody gives a shit what you have to say. You are not getting a tip and don’t care. Good, because we don’t tip or give a flying fuck about you or any other waitress.
In reply to Greg
Tiny brain? It’s unfortunate that neuroscientists have never actually come to the conclusion that brain size and smarts correlate, because then your comment about my intelligence and brain size would be correct. But, since you don’t actually know anything about me or my skills as a person, your comment about my brain literally means nothing to anyone. People do care what I have to say, and those people actually mean something to me. Random people on the internet whom I have never and will never meet as long as I live who don’t give a flying fuck about what I have to say mean absolutely nothing to me. I am simply sharing my opinion and defending myself, and so are you. People don’t give a fuck about what you have to say and people don’t give a fuck about what I have to say. So, when it comes down to it, I guess we aren’t on different levels after all.
In reply to Alexis Loucks
First you need to graduate with a doctoral degree. Then bank at least $500,000 before you are 25 years old. Then you will be on my level.
Nobody here honestly cares what you have to say. Since you stated you don’t care if you get tipped or not, there is no reason for any more posts from you.
We as a group don’t tip, and that does not bother you. To us you are a simple waitress with comments that simply don’t matter.
The way you defend serving food we all know you are never graduating college and will be a loser waitress your entire life. You try to make a unskilled job into a big deal. I find that very sad.
In reply to Samuel
Mhm, a doctoral degree banking 500k? Alright, well for all I know you are living in your mom’s basement, weigh 700 pounds, and play World Of Warcraft all day, so I am not impressed with your statement. I think it’s funny you know that I am not graduating college, that means you have a doctoral AND you can tell the future, that is very impressive, give yourself a pat on the back. I am simply defending the fact that we are all people and a person’s job does not define them and just because you think you are so high and mighty and superior does not mean your status or opinions mean more to anyone than dog shit on the bottom of a shoe. There are wealthy people who spend their time helping the less fortunate and those who need help. If you are as wealthy as you say you are, why can’t you toss a couple of dollars on the table to help a server out? Why can’t you treat someone with respect and kindness? For all you know, you could get in some kind of horrible accident tomorrow and lose your ability to do your job, then what? How long will all your money last? No one will care about your doctorate degree if you can’t even use it anymore. It’s easy to talk about how lowly and worthless a person is when you have never walked a day in their shoes. You can make a judgement about my intelligence and my future just like I can make a judgement about you being a 700 pound, World Of Warcraft playing mama’s boy. So why don’t you take all your money and pay someone to be impressed by you and kiss your ass. You keep on being a “doctor” in whatever field you claim to be in and I will continue to work on my BA in mental health and become a contributing member of society who actually acknowledges the fact that every job in this country is relevant. Have a wonderful life
In reply to Alexis Loucks
On the contrary my dear. Alexis, I do believe Gregg, Samuel, Adolf (Seriously?) Dave, et al, have been summarily and quintessentially Served. By you. You will rise, and they will fall. You are a clearly brilliant and formidable threat to the fragile male ego of which these unfortunate souls represent. They are posturing peacocks to a Goddess Queen. I’ve made stupid money in this industry and the most delightful and honorable friends. “Never Piss Off Your Mechanic or Your Server”. Aloha Sistah
In reply to Rita
Right on, Rita. Thank you!
In reply to Greg
Oh, and Greg, I am still waiting for that mean comment. Or did you just give up on name calling because you knew that you couldn’t come up with a better insult than table slave?
In reply to Greg
Are you trying to prove that you are the worlds biggest douche bag with the world’s smallest penis? if so you are doing a great job.
Damn, and you were doing so good at being human, but then you had to go and ruin it. I feel sorry for you
Writers like this is the reason the US should stay out of other countries problems and … Go eat a cow Bhagwad! Maybe we should have let your family suffer during the Sino-Indian War and I could name a dozen other examples of how India’s culture is flawed and needed US help(like economics)… Readers remember they are not all born equal there… It’s a Caste system and he just want to be on top.
In reply to KevO
It’s no different in the USA. We have poor people nobody gives a shit about. They are not important. Then we have rich people. We are important, control 90% of the wealth and are superior to poor people and waitresses. Rich people control the USA. This is the cast system that we have, which isn’t much different than India.
In reply to Brad
Caste. Learn to spell. Ignorance is the bane of the disfortunate.
In reply to Rita
Hey Rita, next time you want to play grammar Nazi, maybe you should use real words.
“disfortunate”–not a real word.
In reply to Brad
To the person who decided to pollute the web with this b.s. You are a writer, and not a good one. You make money by writing meaningless crap that you believe is important. And judging from the article above you are lousy at your career. Please re consider your point in life because not one person benefits from this so basically you are pointless
In reply to dankprodag
I make between 50 and 60 dollars an hour, I cover a section of 15 -20 tables, and about 70 tables a day, over all. I have no mortgage, no C.C debt, no student loans, no bank loans, no monthly internet bill as I use the public wifi from Starbucks next door, no car payments…nada. health insurance and 300 a month for rent…that’s it Then I store all of my money at home off the financial grid of the banks so I’m not bothered by the IRS. Keep tipping bitches.
In reply to Cute ‘n Sexy Waiter
We don’t tip bitch. You are so full of shit I have to put my hip boots on.
Honestly I am in highschool, I am 18, and I am playing college tennis at a very good division 3 school next fall.
I can’t pay for tennis lessons anymore, times are tough so I became a server to fund what has been my life for 12 years with no breaks.I work harder than most people making 6 or 7 figure jobs, while my job doesn’t require the same skill, I am definitely more exhausted in my daily life than many people who make that much money.
I have school 7 hours a day, I work 7 hour shifts, play tennis for 3 hours(I wish I could play 5-6), and I sleep 7 hours. I go to work every day at 5, (except weekends, I am either travelling for tennis or working odd shifts), finish work at 12 at night(fridays and mondays till 2) and sleep till 7 am, I wake up at 7 every morning and work my ass off to finish school so that I can practice before work, sometimes I get 5 hours, sometimes I get 1, but it always averages out at around 3 hours. Then I get ready for work and do the same thing over again.
Being a server in an understaffed restaurant is more difficult than you could imagine, often times I have to take care of 8 tables or more at a time. You have to be conscious about which tables are drinking more and ordering more, as well as having to be at their table a minimum of 6 times during their meal.
1 Drink orders when seated
2 Bring drinks and take food orders
3 Bring plates and extra pieces if they order anything like pizza or a shareable appetizer (optional step only if needed)
4 Bring food
5 Mandatory check back to see if food is okay
6 Present the check
7 Come back to receive payment
8 Bring back change or the credit card receipt(optional step only if they don’t say keep the change, or if they used a credit card)
Typical mealtimes at my restaurant are about 45 minutes.
Imagine juggling 8 tables which require a minimum of 42 steps taken to serve them. That puts me at just over a minute to complete each step. Given some steps are lengthier than other, but it still is very fast paced and stressful to keep track of that many people and tables.
These steps are assuming they never ask for refills and don’t order more than 2 times, drinks and food.
But we all know everyone wants a refill at least once and most groups order appetizers and then the main course.
I could lie and say that I do more than that, because there are often days when servers can’t show up because of sickness or other reasons, but this is a pretty average and basic amount of work I have to do.
There are slow days and there are hectic days, not every day do I come home Exhausted, but there are also days that are far more hectic where I take care of over 50 tables in the course of the night. Those nights I juggle about 15 tables/checks to do my job.
I have been a waiter for 2 months now since I turned 18, I have had a job for 8 months to help out. In my short time being a waiter I have sold over $10,000 worth of food and drinks. I have only been a full time waiter for 3 weeks now, as I held 4 other positions where I worked. In a night I have sold over 700$ worth of food and drinks before. To show you how that looks, the average bill I cash out is $22. That means that if every bill I cash out is my average bill payed, I would have taken care of 32 people.
But often that is not the case, and my bills are much different depending on where I am working whether it be near the bar or dining.
Often times I have to deal with many tables and many people requesting separate drink orders, which are not $22.
Being a server is tough, you may only have to take orders and bring food, but the amount of work it takes is often more than what people see. If you don’t leave us a tip it doesn’t matter that much because you are a minority of people. But to say that we don’t deserve it is a spit in the face to all of us young 18 year olds who are trying to make money for our livelihood, school, or even to help support our family.
I googled this because I had 3 tables Wednesday night which each spent over $180 on their tabs. I received $40 tips that night. I had a total of 10 tables and brought in over $900 for my workplace. I got small tips from those that didn’t order much and a couple decent tips from those who thought I did a great job, but out of those 3 parties of over 10 people, I received a big fat 0.
I am as nice and work as hard as I can, I don’t expect a customary 15% tip from every guest as I understand 1 or 2 dollars is okay if they didn’t a lot of service, or if their bill was very small. I also don’t expect a $30 tip every time someone spends $200 on a meal. But to not even give me a $10 bill is ridiculous and borderline cruel. Especially if you leave a mess on the table (which I have to bus), and gum on my plates (which I have to clean).
When someone needs the money, and you know they aren’t being paid a real wage, why do you not tip them?
What cruel reasons do you people have for not tipping someone trying to make an honest paycheck?
And what give you the RIGHT to consider any less of us for working our asses off to get you good service and provide for ourselves?
Being a waiter is something everyone should do at least once in their lives to understand how hard even the low skilled job workers put in to get their money.
There is a reason not many people last as servers, and why many of the employees opted for a hourly wage job. Being a server is stressful and hard, not everyone can do it and deal with guest complaints and issues as well as others.
Most of the guys commenting about how they wouldn’t tip could never make it as a waiter, I’m not saying it takes a lot of skill because it doesn’t, but I am saying it takes a lot of hard work and effort.
Being a waiter is like benching 500 pounds, it doesn’t take skill but it sure is damn hard.
In reply to Server in highschool
Grow the fuck up you whiny bitch. My life is so hard wahhhh waaahhhhh.
In reply to Greta
Bitch. Shut the fuck up. You stupid bitch! Why don’t you lick a cunt cunt while the cunt is having a period. And then wash your mouth out with the blood.
In reply to Michael Bruja
You need to grow up too. I think you’re a whiny little bitch as well.
In reply to Server in highschool
My average dinner bill is $180, I do this twice a week. On $360 a 20% tip is $72. Wow 72 dollars for a dumb bitch to fetch food. Screw that zero tip. When the waitress or bitch ass waiter cries after seeing zero tip it makes my day.
You get paid min wage, so no tip for you ever.
$72 X 52 weeks = $ 3744 saving for a Disney vacation. Saving money is easy. Tipping is something foolish stupid people do.
In reply to My $ not yours
I’m sure glad you enjoy that fact that servers pay (tip out to the house and kitchen) to serve assholes like you. Hope you feel real good about yourself.
In reply to L
You are stupid and a liar. Under the law you cannot tip out from money you never gained. You are a lying piece of shit. Also you have to make at least federal minimum wage with or without tips.
There is no reason to ever tip people like you. However if you want to keep your job you better give me good service.
In reply to Mr. Accountant
I came to this website hoping for some information on what other servers, whether they are in college like me or not, do during the off-season for money since tourism has died in my place of residence. What I found seems to be uninformed hatred. First of all “Mr. Accountant”, I know you hid your name because you’re afraid of exposing yourself after all of these rude and ignorant comments. You haven’t ever worked in a restaurant, have you? I’m not sure why. Maybe you had/have no ambition outside of school during college, or maybe you never went to school and opted out of the service industry. Either way, tip outs to bartenders, bussers, porters, or sushi staff all come out of food sales. Tipping our fellow coworkers is mandatory whether we make tips or not. That being said, people like you cause us to occasionally pay to come in to work during the winter by not leaving a dime. It’s humorous how often times when someone’s argument is invalid, they resort to name calling. Anyway I wanted to let you know that I forgive you for being how you are because you simply do not know how the service industry works. Have a great day, and I hope you think about others when making decisions to speak or act in the future.
In reply to Mr. Accountant
Wrong you stupid motherfucker, tip outs are a percentage of total sales. Fucking retard, put a power drill to your temple.
In reply to My $ not yours
Ok, fine. Lets abolish the tipping standard. Completely
Now nobody is required to tip at any establishment in the states. Now as a waiter i make $4.95 an hour. Minimum wage in my state is 8.25. So now, $3.30/hour legally has to be added to my check. That is 66% of my current wages my employer now has to make up. Guess where that money is going to come from. You got it, food and drink prices. So now we take your $180 bill and we add an extra 66%. Congradulations, your bill is now almost $300. So now that we have abolished the tipping standard, your food now costs more and i make less money. So we both lose. Its almost as though the tipping standard is in place so that it benefits everybody. And all of this doesnt account for the back of house workers, the food runners, the guys that roll all your silverware and stock up plates, barbacks. Because guess where their wages come from. You guessed it, me. I tip them out a percentage of my total sales for the night. So when you have your $180 tab and you stiff me, you havent just stiffed me, you have stolen $5.40 from me. What you pay for on ypur bill, is the cost to get the food in the building, to pay someone to wash the dishes required to cook said food, to pay the people required to cook your food, and the managers required to keep the shift running smoothly. Barwly any money from your tab goes to pay the server. My checks come out to usually 0. This is for your benefit, not mine. So like the first guy said, you dont want to tip, go to a buffet
In reply to Ryan
That’s one of the most hilariously wrong pieces of arithmetic I’ve seen in a long, long time. You can’t just take 66% of the bill regardless of its size and add it to your wage. If you did that, you would be earning 100s of dollars per hour instead of the $8.25.
Instead, you need to take the difference and divide it by the average number of your clients. That is the extra amount per table. In your case, if you serve even two tables an hour, it’s $1.65 per order. A pittance. The customers won’t even notice.
If you want a more detailed example, look at “Bullshit point 3” in this article: http://www.bhagwad.com/blog/2014/philosophy/why-your-reasons-for-demanding-a-tip-are-wrong.html/
Yeah, no…paying servers minimum wage will not magically raise prices by 66%. Sorry, but math just doesn’t work that way.
In reply to bhagwad
Hey I think I served your round melon head at New York Kimchi. Remember the diarrhea you had after you ate there? That was me for not tipping last time. Not even the arms of Vishnu can save you from servers wrath.
In reply to Ryan
You are so stupid I can see why you are a waiter With or without tips by law you have to make at least federal minimum-wage. You are not even capable of doing simple math. I can’t stop laughing at your stupidity.
You will be a waiter for the rest of your life because you are too stupid to do anything else. I really wish you only made $2.13 an hour. Because federal minimum-wage is over five dollars an hour more than you are worth.
In reply to My $ not yours
If you’re saving for some fucking Disney trip that so fucking important that you can’t just put a couple dollars on the table for a person paying for college to get an education to better themselves then stay the fuck home and get your bitch ass wife to make your fucking dinner. Money is just a thing why are you so up your ass about it? I hope your car breaks down to Disney asshole. If you can’t appreciate what people do for you then stay the fuck home. Think beyond yourself next time. Hope your kids don’t grow up to be a huge douche like you.
In reply to Shut the fuck up
I hope i get this person to wait on me next time as they really deserve no tip.
In reply to Jimbo
And you deserve shit
In reply to Shut the fuck up
When I stay at the 5 star Grand Floridian Disney, I never tip. I rather flush $2.00 down the toilet then tip you. Don’t worry my BMW won’t break down, we fly nonstop Costs more money but it was well worth it.
Money is just a thing but it is my money that I am not giving to a worthless waiter. If you don’t like the meager pay get a real job loser.
In reply to Elzetta
This is what is wrong with everybody. So my life is worthless because I’m a waitress? Oh sorry I’m a 19 year old going to college getting my degree paying for my gas and my food and my rent. What the fuck do you expect me do? My parents to pay for everything? Sorry I’m not a spoil asshole like y’all. Haha y’all are unbelievable. And I hope you would walk in my place of employment because we would tell you to get the fuck out with that shit. Oh and its a fucking real job I fucking pay taxes just like the rest of you bitches.
In reply to Shut the fuck up
You shouldn’t take a minimum wage job and expect customers to pay you extra just because you chose a shitty job. Want more than the minimum wage the job is worth? Get a better paying job. It is your employer’s responsibility to pay you, not the customer. And you signed on knowing that was your pay.
In reply to Why don’t you
Idk where all of y’all are from but it must be somewhere cold and miserable. Here in the south we value attitude and service. A waiter/waitress can make or break a dinner. They can be assholes or screw ups that completely ruin the night, or they can be pleasant and friendly and create a dining experience that you can truly enjoy. A tip is not something that you have to leave, it’s just a way to show your appreciation and gratitude. After all, they don’t actually have to be nice to you. Maybe it’s different where y’all are from but that appreciation goes a long way down here. Have a blessed day and may God bless y’alls cold, miserable hearts.
In reply to Southern Hospitality
Tell that to the wait staff posting pics online of receipts where they got “stiffed” for a tip. It shouldn’t be expected, but it is, and that is the problem. Even where wait staff get $15 an hour they expect that tip and lose their mind if they don’t get one, regardless of how poor their service was. Worse is the fact that they expect a percentage of the tab. Why should I give a bigger tip one place over another for the same service just because the food is more expensive? How does that make sense?
And that isn’t even including others who do the same job but are not in a “tipping” job.
In reply to Why don’t you
No restaurants, anywhere motherfucker, is paying 15 dollars an hour. No yet. But let me just show the ones who will, what’s gonna happen:
What This Means For Small Business:
According to Anthony Anton, president and CEO of the Washington Restaurant Association, before the wage increase, a typical cost breakdown for Seattle restaurants was: 36 percent of funds devoted to labor, 30 percent to food costs, 30 percent to other operating costs, and the remaining 4 percent was profit margin. However, under the minimum wage increase, if a restaurant owner made no changes, labor costs would rise to 42 percent in quick service restaurants and 47 percent in full service restaurants.
Arguing that the wage increase is harming the workers it was intended to help, the free-market think tank the Washington Policy Center said, “The [restaurant] shut-downs have idled dozens of low-wage workers, the very people advocates say the wage law is supposed to help. Instead of delivering the promised ‘living wage’ of $15 an hour, economic realities created by the new law have dropped the hourly wage for these workers to zero.”
http://www.nfib.com/article/bnew-seattle-restaurants-closing-their-doors-ahead-of-minimum-wage-increase-68463/?utm_source=Taboola&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Analysis&utm_content=RSS
In reply to Rich waiter poor losers
Hourly rate of $0 for a server sounds just about right.
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